The criminological imagination / Jock Young.
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TextPublication details: Cambridge : Polity, 2011Description: xi, 252 p. ; 23 cmISBN: 9780745641072 (pbk.) :; 0745641075 (pbk.) :; 9780745641065 (hbk.) :; 0745641067 (hbk.) :Subject(s): CriminologyDDC classification: 364 Summary: This text rejects much of what criminology has become, criticizing the rigid determinism and rampant positivism that dominate the discipline today. It examines what's gone wrong with criminology, drawing on a range of research - from urban ethnography to sexology and criminal victimization studies - to illustrate its failings.
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This text rejects much of what criminology has become, criticizing the rigid determinism and rampant positivism that dominate the discipline today. It examines what's gone wrong with criminology, drawing on a range of research - from urban ethnography to sexology and criminal victimization studies - to illustrate its failings.
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